eventful
波瀾万丈
解説 Definition
多くの出来事や事件が起こり、変化に富んだ様子。退屈とは程遠い、波乱に満ちた期間や経験を表す。
Eventful describes a time or experience that contains many important, interesting, or unexpected things. It is often used for days, trips, years, or lives that are full of activity or change. The word usually suggests that a lot happened, not that it was calm or ordinary.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
event を知っていれば、「出来事」が多い状態だとそのままつかめる語。-ful は helpful, careful などと同じで「〜に満ちた」という形なので、eventful = full of events と見れば覚えやすい。busy が「やることが多くて忙しい」なのに対し、eventful は旅行・一年・人生などに印象的な出来事が次々ある感じ。an eventful year / trip / life の形で覚え、反対語 uneventful「何事もない」と対で押さえると定着する。
Break it into `event` + `-ful`, meaning full of events. That makes it easy to link with a life, year, trip, or career with many important changes. `An eventful life` is more than busy; it feels full of memorable ups and downs.
例文
Our family trip to the countryside was eventful because we helped on a farm.
家族での田舎旅行は波瀾万丈で、農場の手伝いをしました。
The school year felt eventful after we organized three new festivals.
学校の一年は波瀾万丈で、三つの新しい祭りを企画しました。
Her first week at the job was eventful, with training sessions and meetings every day.
彼女の仕事の最初の週は波瀾万丈で、毎日研修と会議がありました。
eventful の類義語・関連語
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eventful の語源・成り立ち Etymology
eventful は event + -ful。event はラテン語 e-「外へ」+ venire「来る」で「起こって現れるもの」、-ful は「満ちた」です。convene や invent と同じ ven- を持ち、「出来事が次々やって来る」から波瀾万丈の意味になります。
Eventful comes from event + -ful. Event goes back to Latin evenire, from e- "out" + venire "to come," so an event was originally something that "comes out" or happens. Eventful therefore meant "full of happenings," and grew into the sense of having many important or exciting events; related words include invent and convene.
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